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A new release of zend-db

Today, we released zend-db 2.9.0!
This is our first new feature release in over 18 months, and contains
7 bug fixes, 6 new features, numerous unit test additions, and many
documentation improvements.

zend-db is an important component of many PHP projects, and we know that its
support is crucial for many people. As such, we allocated a number of weeks to
triaging the various open issues and patches (more than 50) to ensure we would
provide a stable release.

Fixed

#224 fixes how parameters
are bound to statements in the PDO adapter. PDO has a restriction on parameter
names of [0-9a-zA_Z_]; as such, the driver now hashes the parameter names
using md5() in order to ensure compatibility with other drivers.

#255 fixes an edge case
when using ResultSet with array values (versus objects).

#261 fixes how the
Firebird adapter attempts to retrieve the last generated value so as to
prevent exceptions being raised.

#276 and
#287 provide fixes to
enable usage of the component with PHP 7.2.

We also dropped support for PHP 5.5 (EOL last year) and HHVM; zend-db 2.9 and
above now only support PHP 5.6 and PHP 7+ releases.

Future of zend-db

We are planning a 3.0 release of zend-db release sometime in 2018. This new major version
will contain new features sucha as extended DDL support
for different database vendors (currently, most support targets MySQL), and support
for SEQUENCE.
Additionally, that release will drop support for PHP versions older than 7.1.